As of now, do not dist-upgrade. The Xorg is transitioning from 7.6 to 7.7 and the old (not yet uploaded) packages are to be removed. Wait until the upload of xorg 7.7 is complete and nothing is to be removed before allowing a dist-upgrade to go through, then stand by for transition issues to present themselves.

I did the upgrade about 8 hours ago and X went away. It booted to the text-mode terminal and startx claimed /usr/bin/X was missing, which it was.
I fetched xserver-xorg-core_1.11.4-1 , (xserver-xorg wanted >= 1,11) from a mirror. I installed it with dpkg, which warned me I was downgrading it. I then entered "apt-get install xserver-xorg", apt complained, refused, and suggested "apt-get -f install", which I entered and it fetched several pkgs (sorry, I don't remember which) and the install of xserver-xorg seemed to work. And X came back. With the next reboot the familiar desktop came back.

Thank you for this topic. I will check back here for a while before I dist-upgrade.

browe

Post subject:Posted: 01.05.2012, 17:54

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I guess it is part of the learning curve, but read the summary line at the end
of a dist-upgrade command before you type "Y". If you must dist-upgrade, another
option is to hold xserver-xorg like so:

Code:

echo "xserver-xorg hold"|dpkg --set-selections

and when all is ok with the upgrade path

Code:

echo "xserver-xorg install"|dpkg --set-selections

To confirm holds:

Code:

dpkg --get-selections|grep hold

drb

Post subject:Posted: 02.05.2012, 08:16

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Is xorg still an issue? du -dV is showing no packages to be removed. I don't have all the modules installed but xserver-xorg-video-vesa wants to update with the du unlike its removal in the OP thread.

Thanks (also for the link)!
I don't own an s3virge card (as you rightly supposed ), I was just reluctant to remove xserver-xorg-video-all. In case I will reinstall it later.

Carnophage

Post subject:Posted: 02.05.2012, 20:48

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If I understand correctly the xserver-xorg-video-all is just a meta package which is used to install all possible video drivers (which might be useful in some use cases).
I don't know what's the policy from Aptosid devs point of view, but I removed all the drivers that I won't be using on my laptop (including of course the "all" meta package), leaving just nouveau and vesa as a fallback.

f.ram

Post subject:Posted: 05.05.2012, 15:39

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Hi all,
After deletion I've put this in my /etc/apt/preferences

Code:

Package: xserver-xorg*
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1010

It Seems to work for me, with the opportune sources.

Could it be dangerous in future?

DonKult

Post subject:Posted: 05.05.2012, 17:02

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f.ram wrote:

Could it be dangerous in future?

You are basically forcing your system to use all packages from sid expect the xserver-xorg-packages from testing. Mixing is usually not a good idea. Sometimes it might be needed to temporary downgrade to an older version (=testing) but you shouldn't do that always by default.

Mostly because bugs in testing are fixed only after 10 days (usually, sometimes less, but often more) while bugs in sid can be fixed every 6 hours.

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